We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, ...all the way up from street-car pickpockets to municipal robbers and Government defaulters, and show them how amusing it is to arrest them and try them and then turn them loose--some for cash and some for "political influence." We can make them ashamed of their simple and primitive justice.... We can make that little bunch of sleepy islands the hottest corner on earth, and array it in the moral splendor of our high and holy civilization. Annexation is what the poor islanders need. "Shall we to men benighted, the lamp of life deny?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

These women behind the store windows? Dreams, sir, dreams at bargain prices, a trip to the Indies! These people perfume themselves... with spices. You enter, they close the curtains, and the trip begins. The gods descend on the nude bodies and the islands drift, demented, with the tousled hair of palm trees in the breeze.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

He had brought a large map representing the sea,Without the least vestige of land:...And the crew were much pleased when they found it to beA map they could all understand."What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators,Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?"So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply"They are merely conventional signs!Other maps are such shapes, with their islands and capes!But we've got our brave Captain to thank"(So the crew would protest) "that he's bought us the best--A perfect and absolute blank!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line--the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in A...sia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »